Overview

• Meta Superintelligence Labs began operations under Alexandr Wang following Meta’s $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI and an aggressive senior researcher hiring spree.
• Zuckerberg has pledged to release Meta’s advanced AI models as open source and to build personalized superintelligence assistants for individual empowerment.
• Meta’s recruiting drive has drawn four key researchers from Apple, including Ruoming Pang and Bowen Zhang, plus dozens more from OpenAI and Anthropic.
• Despite offers exceeding $1 billion, none of the employees at Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab have joined Meta’s superintelligence effort.
• Analysts forecast Meta’s second-quarter profit growth will be the slowest in two years as AI talent costs and infrastructure spending surge.